Study Romeo and Juliet in the play that takes their names. Do you think that their deaths were inevi

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Study Romeo and Juliet in the play that takes their names. Do you think that their deaths were inevitable because of the sort of personalities they had? Which lover do you think is most vividly depicted?

Romeo and Juliet is a world-renowned play written by William Shakespeare. It is a story of “a pair of star crossed lovers” from two feuding families. It is set in the Italian City of Verona, which is full of bloodshed and poverty.  

        In act one we see Romeo for the first time, he seems very low at this point and unwilling to express his feelings. This comes across as quite immature and childish. We find out that Romeo is in love and feels completely confused. Romeo explains to his cousin that his love is not being returned by saying that he is,

“Out of favour where I am in love”. We see from this that Romeo is a follower of his emotions, he shows this quite a lot throughout the play and we find that he is a man of emotional extremes.

We see through the play that Benvolio is one of Romeo's closest friends, we see that Romeo trusts Benvolio a lot I think this is because Romeo is quite an impractical person and needs to have a helping hand so he doesn't do anything stupid, like take his own life. For example Benvolio tells Romeo

 “Be ruled by me, forget to think of her” he also tells him to “examine other beauties”. This is when Romeo is incredibly low and would do anything, even harm him self.                          

When we find that the Capulets are having a party we also find that Rosoline is Capulet’s niece, this could be Shakespeare’s way of showing that any relationship Romeo has with a Capulet will not work out. So far fate does not appear to be on Romeo’s side from the very start, yet it is by fate that Romeo knows there will be a party when he stops a servant who is delivering invitations.

The audience first sees Juliet in Act 1 Scene 3, instantly I saw her as quite a practical girl. She knows what she is looking for and she has her own feeling and opinons and will stick to them. She shows this when her mother tells her they have found a suitor, Paris, she says

"Ill look to like, if looking liking move. But no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly"

This also shows she not afraid to experience new things. Meanwhile Romeo was still in a sombre mood despite Benvolio's efforts to tempt him out of it but he seemed to refuse help. This give me the impression that Romeo has quite self centred and feels sorry for himself a lot during the play, this seems to be quite the opposite of Juliet, who is more even-tempered.

We learn a lot more about Romeo and Juliet’s personality at the Capulets house during the party scene. It also means we can compare both of their personalities because this is the first time they meet. In Act 1 Scene 5 we see that Romeo is a well-respected person. Tybalt recognises Romeo and goes to Capulet, but Capulet refuses to let Tybalt start a fight because of Romeo’s good reputation he says to Tybalt

“Content thee gentle coz, let him alone. ‘A bears him like a portly gentlemen;

 And say the truth, Verona brags of him To be a virtuous and well governed youth.

 I would not for the wealth of all this town here in my house do him disparagement.”

 This shows just how respected Romeo was in the town which i think could mean he has a lot of influence over a lot of people, and know a lot of people who would possibly support him in the future. Even his father’s enemy respects Romeo, so his qualities must be strong.

        

When Romeo sees Juliet for the first time I noticed that he changes his mind almost instantly about his love for Rosaline. This slightly worried me about his character because if he changed his mind about Rosaline so quickly, who was there to say he wouldn’t the same to Juliet as well, that kind of impulsiveness could also get him into trouble in the future.

        The first thing Romeo does when he notices Juliet is talk to her, he instantly tries to start wooing Juliet. This again shows his impulsive and self-centred personality. Juliet is not troubled with Romeo’s attempts of wooing and “flirts" with him as well. This was not very common in those days because there were rules for how a lady should conduct her self in a relationship with a man. She should turn him down to begin with, the women should be adored, the relationship should be very public and formal, the wife should become the possession of her farther and her husband also the ideal wife should be a virgin and be perfect in every way possible. Even though this set of rules known as Courtly love would be frowned upon today, they were kept to very closely in that time era. Her flirtatious attitude towards Romeo showed how much of a “free spirit” Juliet was, and how she wanted to rebel against the rules of her age such as Courtly Love. I think the reason she was so interested in Romeo from the start was because she saw some of her self in him because of the way Romeo approached her.

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        We find that the two of them fall in love instantly shows us more about the characters personalities, we could say that this shows us that they are rash. I think they should have found a little out about each other like, the families each of them belonged to, this is because of the state of the two family’s relationship and what effect it would have on them in the future.

When they both learn the family origin of each other it is Juliet who speaks of the problem of what their family names cause them. She says

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